Gastro-art 2: Pie!

If ever a pie was a work of art, it’s this pear pie I bought a week ago at the Hoosier Mama Pie Company in Chicago (see my previous post on this wonderful place). It was not only beautiful, but tasted perfectly homemade, filled with succulent chunks of fresh (cooked) pear in a luscious, buttery crust. And isn’t that crust pretty?

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Yummy! I’ve already had lunch, so yes please can I have a piece of that pie for my coffee? No!?! You already ATE IT???!!!
hmphhh – will have to do with my homemade bread which is in the oven now, and the gigantic pumpkin/macaroon/orange icing cake thing I’ve made for the halloween-party in my riding club. (Muahahaha – I’m a witch)

You are not overweight at all {from your pictures}, so, with all your food sampling all over the world, how do you keep in shape? I already do 90 minutes of exercise each day and must still watch my weight. One big meal takes 4 days of exercise to counter. How do you do it?

I don’t know whether to be sad I don’t live anywhere near the pie joint or grateful I don’t have to resist the temptation to visit constantly. That pie looks fabulous. I can’t even make one cause it’s spring down here and there are no pears. Oh well there’s always apple.

my great grandmother used to make me my own personal, kid-sized pies when i was a wee lad. raisin being a favorite, and she began my life-long love of goosberry pie, which i now make every june\july whenever they are ready to be plucked from their spiny bushes. she died this Oct. 8, at age 104. hoosier mamma looks great, but nobody can beat my grandma.